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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by the oliver twist a major

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dance craze from the nineteen sixties Because way all want

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to think about orphans while we're getting our groove on

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all right checking falling passage through not already been skimming

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through this ploughs along ones were mumbling quickly quickly and

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skimming done skimming All right you don't wanna do it

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pops All right well the phrase please So i want

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some more is something we would not say after finishing

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that paragraph re read the following lines from the tax

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There we go The fact is that there was considerable

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difficulty in inducing oliver to take upon himself the office

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of respiration which raised best states the meaning of office

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of respiration And here the potential answers Okay well how

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about a surgeon's duty to help the child Well the

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phrase were looking at says that the office of respiration

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is something oliver needs to take upon himself That means

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it's oliver's duty not the surgeons So is out All

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right let's look at answers be medical position of a

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lung specialist and see the room where surgeons abe breathing

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again The phrase office of respiration is talking about oliver

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doing something himself and both being dear talking about other

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people Dickens tries to confuse us with the word office

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but from the context we can see that he doesn't

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need a physical office or a profession You're both being

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dear also wrong That leaves us with c the necessary

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function of breathing let's use a little trick to see

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if this is right Replaced office of respiration with necessary

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function of breathing in the sentence Maybe even say it

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out loud That makes sense People giving you weird looks

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for saying that out loud And it sure does and

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they sure are And soc is our correct answer Now

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pump the beatles do the oliver twist and celebrate getting 00:01:55.769 --> [endTime] through that long question

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